LIKEWISE GROUP PLC (LIKE) — Interim Results

Investor webinar replay

Replay transcript excerpt

Good morning, and welcome to the LIKEWISE GROUP PLC Investor Presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and they can be submitted at any time using the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question received during the meeting itself. However, the company can review your questions submitted today on published responses, which is appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I would like to submit the following poll. And I would now like to hand you over to CEO, Tony Brewer. Good morning to you. Many thanks, and thanks everybody for taking the time to join this presentation. Most of you, on this, meeting will know the structure of the group, but, you know, we're selling, all types of floor covering to independent retailers and flooring contractors throughout The UK. We've now established 12 distribution and logistics centers, with the addition in May of the Plymouth facility coming on on stream that completes our coverage of The UK. And we have a good cross section of suppliers from The UK, Western Europe, Turkey, the Far East, and that's across our key flooring products of carpet, residential vinyl, luxury vinyl tile, laminate, artificial grass, underlay for residential carpet and other flooring accessories, screeds, adhesives, and commercial products. And to develop our business, we now have 99 key sales executives across our management and sales teams with the addition of 21 additional sales executives in the last, eighteen months. And also, we've increased our delivery fleet now to a 152 vehicles providing a next day service to our customers. And the 561 staff we now have throu...